Video come and see inside :
At last we able to show you something of our workshops here at Rowden. Come and see us..........
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Contemporary Furniture its best :
Si Smith is a furniture maker of exceptional quaity, see his recent piece for "Waywood Furniture Makers .........
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Furniture making at its best :
Paul Perkins a former student at rowden workshops sent me this lovely image of a cabinet that he made using English Brown Oak.........
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Art and Innovation:
Is innovation a signal of the presence of a genuine creative act or just something new? .........
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Furniture maker gets new job in top Workshop
Congratulations to Jonathan Greenwood who has landed a rarely available position in one of Britains top furniture making craft workshops. Greame Scott Furniture are not a well known name, they work from a small backstreet workshop in Devon but they supply highest quality furniture to private clients all over the world.........
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Artist needs WEB 2.0 friends
I blame my young collegues and my teenage daughter for this. I have taken on a Facebook page and I understand also a Facebook group. It is all rather sad I know, but I need friends........
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Bespoke Furniture Exhibition.
Alice Matthews invites you to an exhibition of her New Furniture Designs and to see the paintings of Helena Clews. The exhibition will be for one day only on Saturday 20th September between 10am and 6pm. The exhibition will take place at Sophies Barn 17 Silver St, Chalcombe Banbury OX172JR........
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Pearwood : Why I love this stuff.
I love pearwood i recently
wrote an article for British Woodworking agreat
magazine that I commend to you This is the kind
of stuff you could find there.......
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Grayson Perry on Workmanship …
I recently heard this quote
from a radio program about Craftsmanship. Grayson
Perry is a British Turner Prize winning artist.
“A lot of young people are somehow put
off struggle and difficulty. Boredom thresholds
now, because of the nature of entertainment, people
are adrenalin addicted .......
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Zen and the Art of Workmanship …
When I returned from japan I
struggled, I had an idea, a powerful concept,
but could not place it, could not fit the parts
together.......
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